Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 218 Heavy Armored Cavalry (please subscribe!)
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Because there are few horses and heavy armor, the horse troops in Shuibo Liangshan are all heavy armored cavalry.

In fact, such a development is unhealthy. The combination of light and heavy cavalry can maximize the advantages of cavalry.

In fact, if it hadn’t been for the sudden war with Goryeo, Li Yan would have reorganized the army and formed the light cavalry at the time of this reorganization. With the continuous growth of the Liangshan Army, the structure of the Liangshan Army is already very unreasonable and must be reorganized .

pity!

Before the reorganization of the Liangshan Army, the war with Goryeo broke out.

In the era of cold weapons, heavy armored cavalry is the "god" on the battlefield.

In the era of light cavalry, infantry could also use bows and crossbows to cause mass destruction to cavalry, while in the era of heavy cavalry, infantry were almost slaughtered against cavalry in the plains and wilderness.

The most famous of the heavy cavalry is the "Iron Buddha".

Tiefutu is also known as Tiefutu. Futu means iron tower in Buddhist language. To put it bluntly, Tiefutu is actually equipped with heavy cavalry, that is, cavalry who wear heavy armor and attack the enemy.

Tiefutu has extremely high requirements on the quality of the horse and the rider (the iron horse armor with heavy armor weighs forty kilograms, plus the rider's armor and weapons, as well as the weight of the rider himself, the horse's load is often more than 200 to Three hundred kilograms, such a huge load requires extraordinary physical strength and endurance of both the rider and the horse. For this alone, the horses in the south and most of the people in the Central Plains will not be able to do it.), so it is impossible to expand the army on a large scale.

Although the horse troops in Shuibo Liangshan were all heavy armored cavalry, the real Iron Buddhas were Linchong Camp and Bian Xiang Camp. And with the best human armor and vest.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan said that Lin Chongying and Bianxiangying are the two best cavalry battalions of the Liangshan Army.

The Yingyang Army is also equipped with heavy cavalry, which can also be regarded as the Iron Buddha.

After the two sides formed their respective formations, they began to gather momentum.

When the momentum reached its peak, Lin Chong and General Ying Yang raised their spears at the same time, and pointed their spears at each other at the same time!

"kill--"

"kill--"

The soldiers on both sides will simultaneously shout a sky-shattering killing sound!
Hedging begins!
Thousands of horses galloping!

dusty!

At first, both parties only cared about hedging and did nothing else.

Until the hedge reaches about twenty feet!

"shoot--"

Under the command of General Yingyang, Yingyang's army shot out a rain of arrows in one order!
"There's no need to dodge, this arrow won't kill anyone." Lin Chong shouted.

Goryeo’s horned bow and wicker arrows are indeed amazingly lethal against infantry, especially infantry with incomplete armor, even stronger than the god arm crossbow (because of its fast rate of fire and long distance), but they are all dressed in high-quality armor. The armored Liangshan Iron Cavalry is really too limited in its lethality.

Hearing Lin Chong's call, the soldiers of Liangshan stopped the turmoil and continued to rush towards Yingyang's army without chaos, noise or commotion...

"Change the heavy arrow!" General Ying Yang shouted.

Seeing that the light arrows could not scare the Liangshan army, General Ying Yang put away all his luck, and decisively asked the cavalry to replace the wicker arrows with heavy arrows, ready to fight the Liangshan army in a dignified manner.

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ten feet!

"Three-stage, shoot—"

Lin Chong, who had been silently calculating the distance between the two sides, finally gave the order to shoot.

The soldiers of Liangshan, who had already been ready to shoot, spontaneously divided into three parts, aiming at the front of the Yingyang army, or drawing their bows and arrows or pulling the trigger-the composition of the Liangshan army is very complicated, not all of them were cultivated by themselves. Many of them were former officers and soldiers, so some of them had good archery skills. Li Yan did not force these people to switch to crossbows. After all, bows and arrows have advantages such as fast shooting speed, which cannot be compared with crossbows. of.

Some people may ask, isn't the shooting distance of the God Arm Crossbow 240 steps? Why did Lin Chong wait until ten feet before giving the order?
There are two reasons:

240. The god arm crossbow can indeed shoot [-] paces, but if you want to break armor, especially the best iron armor, it is safe only if it is less than ten feet, so as to ensure that it will not slip or ricochet on the armor plate.

(Don't think that only 30 meters can break through the iron armor. I'm sorry for the great reputation of the god arm bow. In fact, this is already very remarkable. You must know that the early arquebus guns only had a penetration distance of 30 meters. As for the Korean horn bow with heavy arrows, Only when the distance is less than five zhang, can the iron armor be broken."

[-]. It takes too much effort to open the crossbow with the god arm (those with weak strength have to use their feet to open it, and those with strong strength must use their waist), especially when charging, and the speed of cavalry charging is very fast. Faster bows and arrows can't shoot three or five effective arrows when they are facing each other.

However, the single-armed crossbow of the Liangshan Army was modified by Liu Huiniang. It can shoot three crossbow arrows at a time, and more than 1000 people can shoot more than 3000 crossbow arrows.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"whoosh"

After the three rounds of arrow rain, the front of the Yingyang Army fell on their backs!

As a rough estimate, these three rounds of volleys killed at least 200 Ying Yang soldiers!
(Crossbow arrows are direct shots rather than projectiles, so the people in front can block arrows for those behind. Therefore, in this kind of hedging, as long as the formation is not chaotic, it is impossible to solve the opponent with only crossbow arrows.)
General Yingyang survived the three rounds of deadly arrow rain by relying on a large shield.

Just when General Yingyang put down his big shield and was about to order to fight back, two sounds of "咻", "咻" broke through the air and came straight to his face!

These two arrows were shot by Chen Liqing with the purpose of beheading.

General Ying Yang's reaction was quick, and he dodged an arrow abruptly!
pity!

Chen Liqing calculated correctly, or it could be said that she had guessed the trajectory of General Yingyang's evasion. The second arrow of the Lianzhu arrow hit the face of General Yingyang, and shot through the face of General Yingyang!

However, General Ying Yang is really brave. Under such circumstances, he did not forget to order: "Huang (return) gold (strike)!"

Following General Yingyang's order, Yingyang's soldiers aimed at the middle and rear half of the Liangshan Army with a tacit understanding and shot arrows - because Liangshan Army was the first to strike first, and Chen Liqing delayed a little time However, the Yingyang army missed the best shooting opportunity, so they could only shoot at the middle and rear of the Liangshan army, so as to kill more Liangshan cavalry.

After the rain passed a while ago, the Liangshan cavalry also fell behind with 50 to [-] horses.

The speed of the war horses is very fast, even for heavy armored cavalry, it is more than [-] kilometers per hour, so it is impossible to have a chance to shoot a second arrow. All the Yingyang soldiers hung up their bows spontaneously, and then picked up their spears.

General Yingyang threw the large shield that protected him all the way to Lin Chong, then picked up the iron spear, and at the same time endured heart-piercing pain, pulled out the arrow on his face, and then shouted: "Ha (kill) -"

On the other side, Lin Chong used the Zhangba Snake Spear in his hand to pick up the flying shield, and then shouted: "Kill—"

The soldiers on both sides shouted together: "Kill——"

Hand in hand!

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(End of this chapter)